Producing the Sacred: An Essay on Public Religion

by Robert Wuthnow

Book Overview

What is Public religion? How does it manifest the sacred? These are the fundamental questions Robert Wuthnow addresses in Producing the Sacred.
Wuthnow uses as a guiding assumption the idea that cultural expressions, religious or otherwise, do not simply happen but are produced. He considers the major kinds of organizations that produce public religion--congregations, hierarchies, special interests, academies, and public rituals--showing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252064011
• ISBN13: 9780252064012
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"